Man at the Helm (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

Man at the Helm (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

My sister and I and our little brother were born into a very good situation and apart from the odd new thing life was humdrum and comfortable until an evening in 1970 when my mother listened in to my father's phone call and ended up blowing her nose on a tea towel - a thing she'd only have done in

Paradise Lodge (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

Love, Nina - Despatches from Family Life (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea how to cook, look after children or who the weirdos were who called

Reasons to be Cheerful - Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback)

'Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.' --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In

Jolts (Sdrigotti Fernando)(Paperback / softback)

Nine stories. Nine ways of not being at home. Nine confrontations to the limits of fiction and memoir. Jolts is a playful and honest exploration of the joys and sorrows of lives lived in-between places. A collection that travels across time, space, and language, in order to deliver the gospel of

Not Just Politics (Jones Carwyn)(Paperback)

For nine years, Carwyn Jones was at the helm of Welsh politics. As First Minister from 2009 to 2018, he led the governance of an increasingly devolving Wales through turmoil and success. Not Just Politics follows Carwyn from his roots in a small corner of Wales and childhood brought up as a Welsh

Get Me the Urgent Biscuits: An Assistant's Adventures in Theatreland (Slight Sweetpea)(Paperback)

'A sparkling memoir ... A delight from start to finish' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZO WANAMAKER In 1980s London, Sweetpea Slight is en route to drama school when she is snapped up to work as an assistant to the maverick theatre producer Thelma Holt. Full of wit,

Billiards at Half Past Nine (Boll Heinrich)(Paperback / softback)

Barbarians at the Wall - The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

One Way Ticket - Nine Lives on Two Wheels (Vaughters Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

ONE WAY TICKET is the story of a man and modern

Hutchy - Miracle Man (Hutchinson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A road racer to the core, Hutchy has enjoyed spectacular success at the Isle of Man TT, the North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix, but his own story goes far beyond even those triumphs. In the summer of 2010, Hutchy set the record for most wins in a single Isle of Man TT festival - five in all -

My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters (Barker Chris)(Paperback)

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you get it. Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at

Staring at the Sun (Barnes Julian)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year

Nina and the Sled Dog (Giulieri Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Engel's England - Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man (Engel Matthew)(Paperback / softback)

Matthew Engel takes the road less travelled through England's historic

Man With Night Sweats (Gunn Thom)(Paperback / softback)

Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and

Tale of the Unknown Island (Saramago Jose)(Paperback / softback)

'A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on

Spouses at Keyboards (Ristovi? Ana)(Paperback / softback)

Ana Ristovic (Serbia), born in Belgrade, has published nine books of poetry and is the recipient of numerous poetry awards including Hubert Burda Preis (an award for young European poets in Germany), and two of the most important poetry prizes in Serbia: Disova nagrada (2014) and Desanka Maksimovic

Thirty Nine Steps & The Power House (Buchan John)(Paperback / softback)

Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey (Grey Mini)(Paperback / softback)

Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are at the beach! But there are adventures in store for our intrepid hero as he faces the thrills of Operation Picnic, the tribulation of being buried in sand and - worst of all - being washed away by a giant wave... Join the daring duo as they meet new challenges

Falling Man (DeLillo Don)(Paperback / softback)

A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event which has come to define America at the turn of the twenty-first

Taken At The Flood (Christie Agatha)(Paperback / softback)

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his

Special Delivery (Steel Danielle)(Paperback / softback)

At fifty-nine, Jack Watson owns one of the most successful boutiques in Beverley Hills, has two grown-up children who are the light of his life, and his choice of Hollywood's most beautiful women. After a failed marriage in the distant past, Jack has become the perfect bachelor. And he loves